Studying I/O redirection, it seems like lsof (LiSt Open Files) is the proper utility to see what is going on. (The advanced BASH documentation uses it.) But I can't find it anywhere yet in the pupverse, and I haven't learned enough yet to be able to compile it from raw sources myself.

Would someone be willing to make it some kind of pup-pkg? Any suggestions of where I could steal a binary from some other distro that is likely to work?

What existing pup utilities give the best detailed information about open files?

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LiSt Open Files is a useful and powerful tool that will show you opened files. In Unix everything is a file: pipes are files, IP sockets are files, unix sockets are files, directories are files, devices are files, inodes are files...

What existing pup utilities give the best detailed information about open files?

Start / Control Panel / KP Running packages

- I know you are interested in command line tools but this is still useful . . .

How this is used: Sometimes (this happens with Firefox after I have about 6 open) programs are in memory but not on the desktop - you can use this to "kill 'em"
It takes a while to realise that you can clear from memory without rebooting (refresh often works too - that is just restarting JWM)
You will often notice more of a program running than is actually the case - a bug? I have heard no but am not convinved . . . _________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Thu 14 Sep 2006, 19:12; edited 1 time in total

I was nervous about the "i686" label, since I am running on PI (233-MMX), but that binary actually seems to work! Now I can pursue my crazy efforts to understand pipes, fifos, and IO-redirection...

(And that source package seems way past my current level -- I've never compiled anything in Linux, and I assume I would need the Puppy development package to compile lsof?)

Getting a list of all these open file details is wonderful. Too bad the lsof binary is 100K. Probably too big for standard image.gz, or standard usr_cram.fs. But maybe worth including in the standard development cram.fs.

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